I’ve won a prize: Women’s History Network Independent Researcher Grant
The best thing about this award is the fact that someone like myself can qualify at all. The Women’s History Network, recognising those doing rigorous research without being…
Lesley Nicole Braun, “Congo’s Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa” (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Today I spoke with Lesley Nicole Braun to talk about her new book on Congo’s dancers. Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family…
Utsa Mukherjee, “Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure: Children’s Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-Class British Indian Families” (Policy Press, 2022)
Children’s leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured parenting practices, too. However, our current understandings of these processes…
Simone Varriale, “Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration” (Bristol UP, 2023)
How do migrants make sense of migration? In Coloniality and Meritocracy in unequal EU migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration (Bristol UP, 2023), Simone Varriale, Lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough University, explores…
Sarah Mayorga, “Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism” (UNC Press, 2023)
Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes our lives. Focusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents of Cincinnati, Sarah Mayorga argues that residents’ interpretations of…
Hört auf mit dem #Klimawandel
Der Begriff „Klimawandel“ ist zu einem Allerweltsbegriff geworden, zu einer leeren Chiffre. Wer „Klimawandel“ sagt, verschleiert Machtverhältnisse und kaschiert die Verursacher.
Arjun Shankar, “Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India” (Duke UP, 2023)
In Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India (Duke UP, 2023), Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational…
The Courage of Historical Truths
With the destruction of Gaza by Israel under way and the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories worsening day by day, a recurrent question is raised in…
1700 Books on Palestine
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Marisel C. Moreno, “Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art” (U Texas Press, 2022)
Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary line. Instead, many travel, via water,…
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We stand with Palestine, whether right or wrong
“We stand with Palestine, whether right or wrong!” (nahnu m‘a falastîn zâlimâ aw mazlûma) is a phrase uttered in 1974 by former Algerian president Houari Boumediene. It has…
A Queer Marxist Perspective on Gens: Generating Capitalism, Generating Gender
The question of how non-normative sexualities and genders relate to political economy animates a diffuse and dynamic literature that has compelled our interest over the past year. Following…
Das Mensch-Natur-Verhältnis in der sozial-ökologischen Krise
Überschwemmungen, Dürren, Hitzewellen: die klimatischen Bedingungen für das Leben auf der Erde verändern sich – und das Mensch-Natur-Verhältnis ist in der ökologischen Krise. Rund 130 Teilnehmer*innen…
Statement on the situation in Palestine
Signed by scholars of humanitarianism, war, displacement and related fields, this statement calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the urgent and uninterrupted passage of humanitarian relief.
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scikit-learn
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No peace without decolonization
In the central Gaza Strip, the colonial state of Israel bombed the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital and a UN-run school on Tuesday, October 17, killing over 500 civilians.…
فاشیسم و گوناگونی فرهنگی (بخش اول)
مقدمه در مجموعه جدیدی از گفتارهای عمومی در پی بحث دربارۀ اشکال گوناگون فاشیسم سیاسی در قرن بیستم هستیم. در نخستین بخش به صورتی فشرده نگاهی خواهیم داشت…
دربارۀ عبدالله انوار: زندگی در متن و حاشیه
ساره دستاران سید عبدالله انوار، نسخهشناس، فهرستنویس، مصحح و مترجم. وقتی با اصرار و در تماسهای مکرر از عبدالله انوار میخواهم که از سرگذشت و زندگیاش بگوید، بالاخره…
مستند گاگومان
گاگومانٌْ، (The Twilight)؛ کارگردان و نویسنده: محمد رسول اف، فیلمبردار: رضا جلالی، صدا بردار: محمد حبیبی، تهیه کننده: هوشنگ نوراللهی، ۱۳۸۰ رضا شالیکاران، فاطمه بیژن. هر دو…